Special Branch War

Slaughter in the Rhodesian Bush, Southern Matabeleland, 1976–1980

Ed Bird

ISBN:978-1-920143-86-2

(R350.00 + shipping)

A litany of incidental slaughter …

This searing account primarily covers Ed Bird’s Special Branch (SB) service in the Beitbridge area of southern Matabeleland, 1976–1980, encompassing Operations Repulse and Tangent of the bitter Rhodesian ‘bush war’.

Teddy Luther’s War

The diary of a German-American in an Irish-Boer commando

Donal McCracken (ed.)

ISBN:978-1-920143-76-3

(R185.00 + Shipping)

Some years ago Donal McCracken was working on a book of Ireland and the Anglo–Boer War (1899–1902) when, in the British Ministry of Defence Library, the old War Office Library, off Whitehall, he came upon a slim volume.

The Baronet and the Savage King

The  Intriguing Story of  the Tati Concession

David Hilton-Barber

ISBN:978-0-620-55904-1
R165.00 + shipping)

The concession to mine gold at Tati was granted to a British baronet, Sir John Swinburne, by Lobengula, last king of the Matabele. Although called by colonial imperialists as a “savage king” and a “native despot”, Lobengula was “exceedingly well-made (in height about 6 ft 10 inches), corpulent, with a commanding presence and, when in a good temper, having a kind heart and a full appreciation of humour”.

Anecdotes of the Anglo-Boer War

Tales from ‘The Last of the Gentlemen’s Wars’ - Second Edition

Rob Milne

ISBN:978-1-920143-69-5

(R250.00 + shipping)

A kaleidoscope of human-interest stories exposing long-kept secrets, mysteries and heroics for the first time

Wars always generate stories and everybody loves a story. Rob Milne has compiled this selection of Anglo–Boer War stories from all over South Africa and recounts them in a book that saddens, mystifies, but most of all entertains.

Africa’s Commandos

The Rhodesian Light Infantry

Mark Adams & Chris Cocks

ISBN:978-1-920143-59-6

Paperback (R499 + Shipping)

Hardback (R650.00 + shipping)

Limited Numbered Leather Bound Edition
(R2, 000.00 + shipping) - for orders contact office@30degreessouth.co.za

The RLI … killing machine extraordinaire

Few, if any, regiments have left their mark on the history of modern warfare as did the Rhodesian Light Infantry. Raised on 1 February 1961 the RLI first evolved into a commando unit then became involved in mundane border-control duties in the Zambezi Valley.

Stories from the Field

YDF Footprint in Africa

Youth Development Football (YDF) & Prof. Cora Burnett, University of Johannesburg

ISBN:978-1-920143-77-0

(R265.00 + Shipping)

‘The benefit of teaching life skills is that I also changed. If I can make a difference in the life of just one child, I will be happy’

When we think about Africa, we often recall pictures of a wild countryside, rivers, forests, deserts, buzzing markets and media stories of poverty, devastation and hunger – a prime continent where branches of human justice are still thin and often absent.

Winds of Destruction

The autobiography of a Rhodesian combat pilot

P.J.H. Petter-Bowyer

ISBN:978-0-954849-03-0
R350.00 + shipping)

Winds of Destruction is a unique account of one man’s service in the Rhodesian Air Force, spanning a period of twenty-three years from 1957 to 1980—through the politically turbulent years of Federation; the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (U.D.I.) by Ian Smith’s government in 1965 and thirteen years of relentless, uncompromising bush warfare against the never-ending tide of Robert Mugabe’s and Joshua Nkomo’s ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas.